@wigger Any kind of hitting a child to correct them is the ultimate "because I said so" in that it also instantiates violence as the only reason anything happens, where there should instead be clear reasoning.
Hitting your kids is in the same category as circumcision, iPads, strict adherence to the CDC vaccine schedule---it is for Ns, goyim, and walmart pajama people. It lowers IQ (Straus, 1995), increases aggression (Gershoff, 2016), is less effective than a timeout, and requires escalation to keep working. The replies to articles like this are filled up with the Dumbest People Who Ever Existed saying "it worked for me" and then genuinely malicious and hateful morons dropping reaction gifs of like daffy duck swinging a belt
"EVERY STATE IN AMERICA ALLOWS YOU TO PHYSICALLY CORRECT YOUR CHILD. It's legal. It's fun. Bring it on." -- profile says: Cat Sanctuary Dad. Unyielding steel. Workouts, keto, cat chaos, anime rants. Godzilla, Gundam, Mazinger, Ultraman, classical art, manga.
If you hit your kids, you will create permanent emotional distance with the only person/people you could ever be that close to, not to mention sending them down the road of being as much of a lost fuckup loser as you are who will hit their own kids, or wont, but only after spending a decade figuring out why they reflexively apologize all the time.
The thing that is kicking Gen Z's butt right now is Obama's cash for clunkers.
Every one of us that graduated in the '90s that wasn't rich, at some point owned a $600 used vehicle. We owned it out right and we put $10 in gas in it and it got us where we was going all week long.
Obama did away with cheap used vehicles, and now kids have to pay $500 a month to have a vehicle to drive even used.
I will never disavow French intellectual traditions of charlatanism, incoherence, miserable horniness, Catholicism, myopic obsession with desire and disease etc these are some of the best ideas, and as true as anything
There are severe diminishing returns on technology. We can make something 10% more convenient at the cost of quadrupling its cost and complexity and quartering its reliability. Don't think it's worth it really.
Saw some woman on TikTok saying “where is the female clavicular?” and she, as well as all the women in the comments, were blissfully unaware that they are all the female clavicular
The main problem with his criticism of conservative antifeminist critics like Inez Stepman and Helen Andrews etc is that he assumes they assume their theories are purely scientific vs explanatory models, which are incomplete by definition.
In other words, in spite of its own claims to levelheadedness and impartiality, it inevitably devolves into personal attacks over their level of investment in “blaming women.” Even if there’s some truth to what he’s saying, I don’t see how this should be disqualifying since the main utility of their case is showing how a relatively small number of knowledge jobs have had an outsize impact on the culture by laundering bad economic and immigration policy.
One of the most retarded things that everyone seems to take for granted is this idea that your polemic counts for less if you’re invested in it since all polemics, good or bad, obviously come from some sense of personal alienation or frustration. This is not the same as the classic woman move of making it about yourself and your personal grievances. I’m sure if he really thought about it, he’d have to grant that it’s funny how this only seems to apply when you have an agenda of your own.
“DoorDash and nannies are subsidized by the government by allowing illegal immigrants to come into the country so women can work, wtf did you just say???” Of course he saves his greatest outrage for one claim that should be uncontroversial on its face since it’s functionally how things work.
It would’ve been more honest if he’d just called her a pickme.